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Yet, negotiating a complicated and painful agreement with Syria, which may involve uprooting 15,000 Israeli settlers from the Golan, under a Damocles’ sword of a referendum doesn’t make Barak’s task easier.
International law, China understands, is a double-edged sword that can be used against China in other territorial disputes, or even in its domestic affairs.
Starting with the Sword of Damocles, he chooses as its opposite not the robustness of the Phoenix rising from the ashes, but the inventiveness of the Hydra, who sprouts two heads whenever one is cut off.
Likewise, intellectual property, if not designed properly, can be a two-edged sword when viewed from a learning perspective.
But as he turns from his permanent self-centered campaigning to trying to govern, Twitter becomes a two-edged sword that deters needed allies.
The first will give America a shield; the second will keep its nuclear sword sharp.
Loving America’s DeficitsWith the weak dollar hanging like the sword of Damocles over the global economy, almost everyone laments America’s spendthrift habits.
Ever since Alexander the Great memorably solved the puzzle of the Gordian knot with just a blow of his sword, people have dreamed of a simple military solution to complex problems.
An A-bomb is millions of times more immoral than a spear or sword, hundreds of thousands of times more immoral than a rifle, thousands of times more immoral than a machine gun, and hundreds of times more immoral than salvo systems or cluster bombs.
But this massive pool of potential talent is a double-edged sword.
All of this implies that connectedness will remain a double-edged sword – the leverage it provides being fraught with vulnerability.
The catastrophic nuclear war plans that Ellsberg saw in the 1960s were a Sword of Damocles that fortunately never fell.
Back then, the tweet did at times seem mightier than the sword.
As Jesus declared, “all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
First, the revolts are a double-edged sword for Iran.
But who will wield the sword?
And Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 election campaign’s ties to Russia hangs like a Sword of Damocles over his presidency.
Kill!Kill!” and “May a big sword decapitate the Japanese!”
As Tommaso Campanella, a great philosopher who spent much time in prison and was tortured because of his ideas, wrote a few centuries ago, “history is changed first by the tongue and then by the sword.”
But, like all technological revolutions, the digital one is a double-edged sword, offering substantial benefits alongside daunting challenges – and certainly not only in the West.
Through a long series of tactical votes on all manner of trivialities, and with the alternative of a hard “no deal” Brexit hanging over MPs’ heads like the sword of Damocles, May’s government tried to manipulate the Brexit endgame.
Advances in microbiology may also prove to be a double-edged sword.
But consumption equality is a double-edged sword.
Communicating Public Health and Social JusticeKIGALI – As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, communication is a double-edged sword.
Biden will undoubtedly wield America’s mighty sword more judiciously, and with a friendlier face.
That inclination is of course a double-edged sword.
' "I come not to bring peace, but a sword," said Christ,' rejoined Koznyshev, from his own standpoint quoting quite simply, as if it were quite comprehensible, the very passage from the gospels that always perplexed Levin more than any other.
Behind them the captain had drawn his sword, and as the crowd pressed in on them more and more, threatening to crush them against the wall, he ordered them to present bayonets.
"In essence, the narwhale is armed with a sort of ivory sword, or lance, as certain naturalists have expressed it.
There a native boatman pulled alongside in a dugout canoe and sold Dillon a silver sword hilt bearing the imprint of characters engraved with a cutting tool known as a burin.
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